An electrocardiogram (ECG) confirmed a heart attack and tests showed his left anterior descending artery was totally blocked, which caused his cardiac arrest. A cardiac arrest caused by a heart attack involving this blood vessel is commonly referred to as a “widow-maker” because of the high mortality rate, especially in cardiac arrest that occurs outside the hospital.
Singh spoke with Henrick’s wife of 35 years, Diane, by phone. He explained he wanted to get her husband into the cardiac catheterization lab as soon as possible. Unless they moved quickly, Henrick stood no chance. She told him to do whatever he had to do to save her husband.
Working quickly, Singh installed an Impella® heart pump, the world’s smallest, to temporarily assist Henrick’s weakened heart. He cleared the blockage in Henrick’s left anterior descending artery and inserted a stent to keep the blood vessel open. As part of his treatment, Henrick also underwent targeted temperature management (formerly called therapeutic hypothermia) to ensure brain function recovery.
As Henrick was being transported to the cardiac intensive care unit after Singh cleared the blockage and installed the heart pump, Heffner says he joked with Henrick, saying “If you think you’re getting any more strokes from me just because you had a heart attack ...” Henrick, who was sedated, didn’t hear him then. But as friends will do, Heffner told him about it later.
“He’s doing great,” Heffner says. “You would never know he had a massive heart attack.”
Singh says Henrick was fortunate in part because the heart attack occurred at a place with an AED and people who knew CPR and because the golf course was within several miles of EMS and the hospital. “It’s always a team effort in these cases, everyone doing their job to save a life. It’s an incredible thing to be part of.”
Henrick says it was a “perfect storm” of events that day that gave him his second chance.
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